How To Create Custom User Roles In WordPress

Understand what is WordPress user roles, how to use, apply customize and cerante new rules for you site user purposes and activities in an easy way.

Like other Content Management Systems, WordPress has predefined User Roles that fulfill the basic needs of a CMS. Many WordPress users don’t know that they can limit the access of Dashboard. By creating new custom user roles, it helps to make sure that only specific groups of people have access to just the areas they need. It would help to minimize the chances of any accidents happening that can bring down the whole website. Today, we’ll learn how we can create new custom user roles manually and through a plugin.

Understanding User Roles of WordPress:

A User Role is the combination of two things.

Role

Capabilities

Role is the name of a user group that will be displayed in your WordPress Admin Panel and capabilities are the privileges to enable or disable.

By default, WordPress has 6 basic user roles.

Super Admin: Profile that has access to the complete website, including network administrative features.

Administrator: Profile that has all administration features.

Editor: Profile that can create, edit, publish their and other posts too.

Author: Profile that can create, edit, publish their own posts only.

Contributor: Profile that can create, edit their own posts only but cannot publish them.

Getting Ready to Create New User Roles:

There are two ways to create, edit or delete user roles in WordPress.

1. Plugin To Modify WordPress Roles:

Sometimes you want to use a plugin that can control User Roles in WordPress. There are lots of Plugins available to add, modify and delete user roles and capabilities. But, I would recommend User Role Editor plugin.